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I retreat to a red giant 100ly away and build a Nicoll Dyson Beam and sterilise the entire planet and blow the atmosphere. I then build a large hill. My hill.

Granted you are now the best in the world at IPL (developed in 1954) I wish I was better at java

Its a great mod. The ship is launch able. (the engine can provide enough thrust to launch easily).

I'm Having a problem with ckan. when I use it it fails to recognize ksp. However when I click add new and navigate to the place ksp is in the files I cant add it to the list? I might be missing a button.

What happened to the sails you were working on back on page 1 of this thread? Sails would be a great thing to have in the game.

Surely if they were self guided they would not require any communications, so you would not be able to communicate with them.

Has a VASMIR been tested in space?

My chemistry teacher told me a story once. There was a school that was shutting down which had some leftover chemicals. So one lesson a chemistry teacher chucked some Alkali metals into the school pond. Everything went well. A couple of weeks later a biology teacher said "I don't know what's happened to the newts in the school pond. Its a real problem because the sixth form were doing their A level study on them."

Really? I've tried it and I get Yuri Gagarin as the first person in space.

a balloon might be more successful. A balloon on Mars can lift approximately 1g/m3. The Martian atmosphere also has a higher molecular mass than Earths atmosphere.

There is no reason to return a satellite to Earth. The value of a 10 year old satellite on Earth is 0. The value of the same satellite in space is quite high. It would probably be best to hack into the satellite from Earth.

Maybe they will prove once and for all EM drives are possible.

It might be more effective to use a CO2 NTR or a CO/O2 chemical engine powered hopper. They could both use simple ISRU systems. A balloon on mars could lift aproximately10g/m3. A Martian balloon would be able to carry more mass than the same balloon at 10000ft on earth due to low gravity and high molecular mass of the atmosphere. A plane would probably be a bad idea because of the lack of runways. However a hybrid aircraft might work. However a colony might be able too use planes because they would be able to build runways and thicken the atmosphere.

In 5 billion years the sun will expand and destroy the Earth, Venus and Mercury. It will also increase the temperature of Mars massively.

Amazing ship. Pity its not full scale.

Having gravity would allow orbiting asteroids which would be fun.

I agree that "cheating" is useful. However why would you want to have to enter a code?

But then you could argue that any engine that has been tested should be in. Including an EM drive.

Does Kenlie realise its a trap? Is he trying to save the crew? Or does he really want to fly a rescue mission?

Will there be a Kerbal/Kerbulin in that pod? maybe it will contain a spy.

If you are redirecting asteroids into Earth Orbit you don't have to use hydrogen for fuel. Two possibilities are: Using Water, which means you have more fuel at a lower isp. Using some kind of electric engine to provide thrust from rock mined from the asteroid. You could also use areobraking, as most asteroids could probably survive , due to being a large lump of rock. also the minimum possible delta vee to return from an asteroid is 60 m/s. if you use an asteroid that will be very close to earth in 10 years then a small burn will put it on an areobraking trajectory.

surely its too much coincidence to be a real contract. Just as the Kerbals fire their last "missile". The Kerbulans are probably confused about why they are firing their last "missile", at an uninhabited moon.

Is it really a contract from Rockomax?? If its from the Kerbulans, How have they manipulated the contracts, and why does it say rescue, the Kerbulans would probably say capture?

If Laythes oceans contain hydrazine that would be an explanation to why herbals where space suits on the surface.

This is a ridiculous thread. There is no such thing as too much KSP.